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I dont think this is true. direct sunlight can be many shades of white. It differs in the morning and the evening and it is mostly yellow. The yellowness of the sunshine is a direct result of raleigh scattering and other atmospheric effects.the blue part of the spectrum that comes from the sun is scattered by the sky, making the sky blue. Taking away the blue makes the nonscattered sunlight yellowish. On photos of the moon, you see the true color of sunlight. Which is a pure white.

No paywall: https://archive.is/ozASI

No it does not. You can't even buy a house if you are a Dene that does not live/work in that city. You can buy a house and live there. You are free to do so, but you are not allowed to buy a house to rent it out. It is typical European market regulation. Amsterdam is also setting up this legislation to do this.

you forgot to add an important argument: You forget to say that probably both are manmade.

Who do you trust more? 1) something probably created in a chinese lab? 2) something created by a list of different corporations and tested independently by at least 50 countries?

life is political. So you would have to suppress all communication about life. Show me content and I will show you politics. A video of children playing in a pool: Are they dressed appropiately? Are they playing the right games? Are their surroundings a capitalistic dream without meaning? What about a b-actor soap series? a wikihow on how to make beer? a podcast on how to make vegan yoghurt? an article about curing meat? There are no things unpolitical. life is political.

a bit of a throwaway account maybe

Canada's engineering market isn't impressive because it doesn't have the American DOD spending behind it. There are countries that are quite impressive for their software engineering compared to the states and population. Sweden comes to mind and the taxes are a lot more steep there than in Canada.

actually, statistics prove you wrong. Cuba pays surgeons roughly the same as streetcleaners but they have twice the amount of specualists per 100.000, compared to the united states (1). If you look at countries that have (almost) free education (like cuba), you see that these countries have similar numbers of physicians/specialists per 100.000 people. These facts tend to show that the main factor for having "enough" surgeons has nothing or little to do with pay and mostly with opportunity (free) and capability. As an interesting sidenote, I'd like to point out that the high salaries of surgeons in the US help to prevent people from going into surgery. Another point is that if you go into surgery for the money, I think you have the wrong incentives to be the best surgeon.

(1) https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.MED.SAOP.P5?view=map...

In the Netherlands housing had a 30% price hike in some places due to the pandemic. Totally insane.

I predicted a strong bullmarket in stocks, crypto and gold. Stocks and crypto turned out to be true, but I invested too much in gold. So that was an unpleasant surprise.

I predicted that corona wouldn't do much for environmental concerns. This is because the incentives are wrong. If you forbid people to fly they will want to fly. Forbid drugs they want drugs. One of the most famous and anecdotal stories is the story of how the potato became accepted as a crop in Europe: Count Dauphin, after surviving a prolonged prison stay and being sustained on solely potatoes, believed the potato was a miracle crop.

He started a marketting campaign to get farmers to grow the crop. But all the farmers he asked balked at the idea. He even tried to pay farmers to grow the crop!

The more he tried to push the crop on the farmers the more resistance he encountered.

It was hopeless. Until he thought up a cunning plan: he planted a field with potatoes and made a big show of having guards guarding his "miracle crop". The guards were secretly instructed to not catch thieves though and within a few months all the farmers in the surrounding area had a potato crop growing.

One prediction that I completely got wrong: that this pandemic would be different from the Spanish flu and that we would be in control in 6 months. The housing price bubble.

Because it's illegal. America has protectionist policies for their big pharma.

great book

Is this a joke?

This is a blind spot for Americans, but the main reason you can print so much money without a penalty, is because foreign entities that hold dollars as a reserve currency, have a vested interest in keeping the dollar stable.[1] They buy up dollars to increase their reserves and keep the dollar inflation low. America can do this because they can protect their world reserve currency status by show of force.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/forex-currencies/09231...

[2] https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lecture/transcript/print/when-curr...

They were attacking fishing boats (they didn't have a navy because there was no real government, so these attackers were pirates). The Somali pirates should get more respect from most hardliners. This is basically people grabbing guns to protect their land and create a livelihood instead of lying down to die.

I think you are both right: I think the act of stealing is the act of taking something (an idea, an object) without permission from someone else. It doesn't matter how much this "something" costs to make in time, money or effort. In that sense, taking designs without permission and creating electronic parts is theft. However, having said this, I don't believe theft is necessarily a bad thing. I think it's a good thing (to a certain point) that the government steals your money (takes it without permission) as taxation. I also believe that where there is a limited supply - either by design or the nature of the thing - the owner of this supply should be coerced into doing what is not only good for themselves but also for the whole of society. I might be voicing an unpopular opinion here, but in my eyes you don't have the right as a home owner to leave your house empty when there is a shortage of housing. Squatting should be legal in such circumstances. This forces homeowners to keep rent affordable. I also believe that apple keeps these parts off the market to make more profits in a way that is not beneficial for the environment and society as a whole. This makes it a moral imperative to steal these parts and make them available for the general public.

Actually, there are top of the line athletes with a vegan diet. It's not very popular, but that is probably because being vegan is not popular. The B12 source argument has recently been solved as well. Most animals source their B12 from micro-organisms in the soil. If humans stop washing their food excessively, this would fix the B12 intake problem.

Paying is an issue

I disagree with you. Some coins like tezos and cardano or a similar coin will be a creative destructive force for many institutions. They allow for truly decentralized authority. Think passports without an issuing country. Think money without a central bank. They are building the systems to be all the things that Taleb laments in Bitcoin.

Elon musk wasn't qualified to build a rocket company. Still pretty succesful though.

I am hating these kind of messages more and more. Especially when you see what this does to the landscape. The whole country will get industrialized with solar panels and windmills. I can't imagine people will see this as something good in 50 years. I understand climate change should be tackled but I rather have apple invest in fusion reactors or thorium reactors. Here in the netherlands news just recently came out that Amazon is buying half of the energy from a future dutch offshore windpark to greenify their operation elsewhere in the world. This is not a positive thing.

Because you make a claim that is based on nothing against a claim based on evidence.

Put your money where your mouth is. Get a 3 pound weight, strap it to your arm. See how comfy you are with it. Or don't, but don't assume you know better without an experiment.

This. And also: if they don't exist. Open a new one! There is no law against it. And we would stand shoulders to shoulder if and when the government would ever propose such a law. But until that time, stop whining.

Yes. That happened. Also, IBM sold machines that were used to further the holocaust to germany during the war.

Both are quite normal. What if the bookstore owner decided to only sell porn? The mall van decide to force the bookstore to stop that. That's just how it works. The bookstore is a client of the mall. So the mall decides.

Tell me, should the government force ebay to sell this book? Or should Ebay be free to decide themselves? I don't get why everyone is so worked up.

I don't care what society thinks I have my own moral compass that is partly my own and partly shaped by society. I do my best to shape society to my truth and don't care what "the majority" or "the minority" thinks. You make many claims about "society" and what would work or wouldn't. But these are just assumptions. I like experiments. My question remains why is it relevant that a minority asks for the removal of something. 100 years ago slave owners said society would collapse without slaves and that black people were too stupid to do more that physical work. A minority of people from "society" objected to this at first. And slowly the old truths were replaced by new ones. This is happening now as well. You presume many things but you are not talking about the justness or inherent truths. I ask you: Why shouldn't we let books that are implicitly discriminatory fade into obscurity?

This happened too many times in history to even name. I could sum some recent examples if you want. Do you want that?